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Stephen Roberts

Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

From 1987 till 1988 I was Lecturer in Spanish at St Hugh's College, Jesus College, Wadham College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

From 1988 till 1990 I held the Queen Sofia Junior Research Fellowship and a Lecturership in Spanish at Exeter College, Oxford.

From 1991 till 1994 I was lecturer in Spanish at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Since 1994, I have been Lecturer, then Associate Professor and Reader, and then Professor in Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, 糖心原创.

Expertise Summary

My main research areas are the literature, culture, history and intellectual history of Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with a particular interest in the thought and public role of Miguel de Unamuno, in the novels of Benito P茅rez Gald贸s, Jos茅 Mar铆a de Pereda, P铆o Baroja and Ram贸n del Valle-Incl谩n, and in the poetry of Juan Ram贸n Jim茅nez, Federico Garc铆a Lorca, Pablo Neruda and others. I have also worked on cinema (John Huston, Juan Antonio Bardem, V铆ctor Erice, biopics). My current research deals, on the one hand, with the phenomenon of exile and, on the other, with the diplomatic history of the Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930).

Teaching Summary

My teaching includes the Drama section of a first year module entitled Literature in Spanish; the Peninsular side of a second year survey course on the literature of Spain and Spanish America since… read more

Research Summary

My current research has two main strands. On the one hand, I am focusing on the phenomenon of exile, with a particular emphasis (a) on Miguel de Unamuno's exile from the Dictatorship of Miguel Primo… read more

Recent Publications

  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2023. TSN: Revista de Estudios Internacionales. 15, 134-146
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2022. 'El modernismo hispanoamericano'. In: JOS脡 LUIS MORA and ANTONIO HEREDIA, eds., Historia de la filosof铆a espa帽ola Granada: Comares Editorial. 203-218
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2021. 'La guerra y los naipes: el 贸rdago de C贸mo se hace una novela' Cuadernos de la C谩tedra Miguel de Unamuno. 脡poca III(49), 1
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2021. Vigilancia y clandestinidad: la vida secreta de Unamuno en Hendaya. In: GABRIEL INSAUSTI, ed., Unamuno en Hendaya Valencia: Pre-textos. 273-293

My teaching includes the Drama section of a first year module entitled Literature in Spanish; the Peninsular side of a second year survey course on the literature of Spain and Spanish America since 1840; Spanish films of the 1970s that chart the psychological legacy of dictatorship; and, at final year level, a module that looks at the literature and film produced in Spain during the r茅gime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975).

Current Research

My current research has two main strands. On the one hand, I am focusing on the phenomenon of exile, with a particular emphasis (a) on Miguel de Unamuno's exile from the Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) and (b) on the influence that Spanish exiles in the UK after the Civil War of 1936-1939 had both on the future of Spain and Europe and on British Hispanism. On the other hand, I am researching the foreign policy of Miguel Primo de Rivera, focusing above all on the way in which the Dictator formulated that policy through an evolving dialogue with his Ambassadors in key European capitals.

Past Research

One of the strands of my research has focused on the intellectual history of Spain between the 1880s and the 1930s. I have been particularly interested in the literature, thought and politics of Miguel de Unamuno and, centrally, his pioneering role in the emergence of the figure of the modern intellectual in Spain (see monograph entitled Miguel de Unamuno o la creaci贸n del intelectual espa帽ol moderno). I have also looked at the intellectual dialogue between Spain and Spanish America over this same period (Ortega, Rod贸) and at the thought of Spanish intellectuals who went into exile in the UK after the Spanish Civil War (Castillejo, Jim茅nez Fraud, Barea, Madariaga, etc.). .

Another strand has focused on different aspects of Spanish and Spanish American poetry of the first decades of the twentieth century, including the relationship between poetry and philosophy in Juan Ram贸n Jim茅nez, Pablo Neruda's formal experiments, and Federico Garc铆a Lorca's poetic dialogue with the visual arts and with cinema. I published a literary biography of Lorca, entitled Deep Song. The Life and Work of Federico Garc铆a Lorca, in 2020.

Much of my research has centred on the relationship between text and historical context, as can be seen in the exhibition entitled 驴Agon铆a o transformaci贸n? El carlismo en la literatura espa帽ola, 1876-1912 that I curated for the Museo del Carlismo in Estella (Spain) in 2019-2020.

I have also worked on the Spanish cinema of the 1950s (Bardem) and 1990s (Erice).

Future Research

I am writing up a monograph based on my research into Miguel Primo de Rivera's foreign policy. At the same time, I am preparing (with colleagues in Nottingham, Spain and Portugal) a research project entitled The Limits of Liberalism. Lessons from Iberia.

  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2023. TSN: Revista de Estudios Internacionales. 15, 134-146
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2022. 'El modernismo hispanoamericano'. In: JOS脡 LUIS MORA and ANTONIO HEREDIA, eds., Historia de la filosof铆a espa帽ola Granada: Comares Editorial. 203-218
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2021. 'La guerra y los naipes: el 贸rdago de C贸mo se hace una novela' Cuadernos de la C谩tedra Miguel de Unamuno. 脡poca III(49), 1
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2021. Vigilancia y clandestinidad: la vida secreta de Unamuno en Hendaya. In: GABRIEL INSAUSTI, ed., Unamuno en Hendaya Valencia: Pre-textos. 273-293
  • STEPHEN GH ROBERTS, 2020. 鈥楾eaching Unamuno鈥檚 Press Articles: The Badge of Identity of the Unamunian Intellectual鈥�. In: LUIS 脕LVAREZ CASTRO, ed., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 93-98
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2020. 驴Agon铆a o transformaci贸n? El carlismo en la literatura espa帽ola, 1876-1912.: Cat谩logo de la exposici贸n del mismo t铆tulo celebrada en el Museo del Carlismo (Estella) entre octubre de 2019 y junio de 2020. Con introducci贸n y textos de Stephen Roberts. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra.
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2020. Deep Song. The Life and Work of Federico Garc铆a Lorca London: Reaktion Press.
  • JOS脡 LUIS MORA Y STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2020. 鈥樏歯a 铆nsula para isle帽os, tierra adentro鈥� 脥苍蝉耻濒补. 886, 3-7
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2020. 鈥楩ilosof铆a y literatura. De la generaci贸n finisecular a la generaci贸n de 1927: la figura del nuevo intelectual鈥�. In: JOS脡 LUIS MORA Y MIRIAM SONLLEVA, ed., Educaci贸n, Cultura y Sociedad. G茅nesis y desarrollo de un proyecto reformista.: La Universidad Popular segoviana. Antecedentes, historia y protagonistas. Segovia: Real Academia de Historia y Arte de San Quirce. 193-208
  • STEPHEN GH ROBERTS, 2019. 鈥楳iguel de Unamuno鈥檚 Notion of Public Sphere鈥�. In: DAVID JIM脡NEZ TORRES AND LETICIA VILLAMEDIANA GONZ脕LEZ, ed., The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 174-91
  • STEPHEN GH ROBERTS, 2017. 鈥樎縃acia un liberalismo socialista? Los intelectuales espa帽oles de principios del siglo XX y su cr铆tica del liberalismo decimon贸nico鈥�. In: JORGE NOVELLA SU脕REZ, JOS脡 LUIS MORA GARC脥A Y XAVIER AGENJO BULL脫N, ed., Laberintos del Liberalismo. Libro de las XII Jornadas Internacionales de Hispanismo Filos贸fico Madrid: Fundaci贸n Ignacio Larramendi, Facultad de Filosof铆a de la Universidad de Murcia, Asociaci贸n de Hispanismo Filos贸fico. 217-35
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2016. Romance Quarterly. 63(2), 53-62
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2016. 'Exile 1924-1930: Essays, Narrative and Drama'. In: JULIA BIGGANE & JOHN MACKLIN, ed., A Companion to Miguel de Unamuno Woodbridge: Tamesis. 53-74
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2016. '"Lorca eran todos": Las pr谩cticas genocidas en Granada y su memorializaci贸n'. In: 脡LIANE LAVAUD-FAGE ET CATH脡RINE ORSINI-SAILLET, ed., Des G茅nocides dans le monde hispanique contemporain? R茅alit茅s et repr茅sentations 33. Binges: 脡ditions Orbis Tertius, Hispan铆stica XX. 243-260
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2016. 'Los intelectuales en la pol铆tica cultural republicana'. In: IDOIA MURGA CASTRO Y JOS脡 MAR脥A L脫PEZ S脕NCHEZ, ed., Pol铆tica cultural de la Segunda Rep煤blica Espa帽ola Madrid: Editorial Pablo Iglesias. 223-245
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2015. 'Intelectual: historia de una palabra y un concepto clave en la obra de Miguel de Unamuno'. In: ARDILA, J.A.G., ed., El Unamuno eterno Barcelona: Anthropos. 431-56
  • STEPHEN GH ROBERTS, 2015. 'Federico Garc铆a Lorca et le cin茅ma' Europe: Revue Litt茅raire Mensuelle. 93e ann茅e(1032), 170-85
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2014. 'Lorca, el cine y la renovaci贸n del teatro espa帽ol' Hispanistica XX: Litt茅rature et Cin茅ma Allers-Retours. 31, 365-75
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2014. 'Miguel de Unamuno y la Gran Guerra' Monteagudo: Monogr谩fico: La Primera Guerra Mundial y el acontecer literario en Espa帽a: 1914. Tercer 脡poca(19), 133-44
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H. and SHARMAN, A., eds., 2013. 1812 echoes: the Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic history, culture and politics Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • MAR脥A JOS脡 MART脥NEZ JURICO and STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2013. 'El sol del membrillo/The Quince Tree Sun (V铆ctor Erice, 1992): Moving Pictures 鈥� Painting, Drawing and Filmmaking'. In: MAR脥A M. DELGADO and ROBIN FIDDIAN, eds., Spanish Cinema 1973-2010: Auteurism, Politics, Landscape and Memory Manchester: Manchester University Press. 78-90
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2013. Censura, auto-censura y traducci贸n en los art铆culos publicados por Miguel de Unamuno durante su exilio voluntario en Francia (1924-1930). In: GUERE脩A, J.-L. and ZAPATA, M., eds., Censure et manipulations dans les mondes ib茅rique et latino-am茅ricain Presses Universitaires Fran莽ois-Rabelais. 253-272
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2013. The Twelfth Annual P茅rez Gald贸s Lecture (2012): Gald贸s and 1812
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2013. Towards a political anthropology: "C谩diz" by Benito P茅rez Gald贸s. In: ROBERTS, S.G.H. and SHARMAN, A., eds., 1812 echoes: the Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic history, culture and politics Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 207-225
  • MAR脥A JOS脡 MART脥NEZ JURICO and STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2013. 鈥楬ow a Constitution is Made: An Interview with Alfonso Guerra鈥�. In: STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS and ADAM SHARMAN, eds., 1812 Echoes: The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 337-65
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2013. Del sentimiento tr谩gico de la vida (1913) Revista de Hispanismo Filos贸fico. 18, 115-22
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2012. 'El ser, el otro y la noci贸n de comunidad en la obra de Unamuno' Hispanistica XX: Identit茅 / Alt茅rit茅 dans la culture hispanique aux XXe-XXIe si猫cles. 29(2011), 51-58
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2011. 'Cantando para contar: La vida de Cole Porter en Night and Day (1946) y De-lovely (2004)'. In: GLORIA CAMARERO, ed., Vidas de cine. El biopic como g茅nero cinematogr谩fico Madrid: T&B Editores. 61-91
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2011. Rescatando a Don Juan: "El hermano Juan o el mundo es teatro" de Unamuno: perspectivas actuales Hecho teatral. 11, 193-218
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2011. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 17(2-3), 195-207
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2010. 'T铆os y sobrinos, maestros y disc铆pulos: la dif铆cil transmisi贸n de valores en la novela espa帽ola finisecular' Hispanistica XX: Transmission/Transgression. 27(2009), 127-134
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS, 2010. Review article of Colette y Jean-Claude Rabat茅, Miguel de Unamuno. Biograf铆a The Times Literary Supplement.
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2009. 'Lorca, el poeta pintor'. In: JEAN ANDREWS Y STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, ed., Obra en marcha. Ensayos en honor de Richard A. Cardwell Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. 158-69
  • JEAN ANDREWS Y STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, ed., 2009. Obra en marcha. Ensayos en honor de Richard A. Cardwell Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press.
  • STEPHEN G.H. ROBERTS, 2008. 'La transformaci贸n de la memoria colectiva. El caso de De mi pa铆s (1903) y Recuerdos de ni帽ez y de mocedad (1908) de Miguel de Unamuno' Hispanistica XX: M茅moire(s). Repr茅sentations et transmission dans le monde Hispanique (XXe-XXIe si猫cles). 25(2007), 133-40
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2007. Miguel de Unamuno o la creaci贸n del intelectual espa帽ol moderno Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2007. 'Out of the Ashes: Unamuno and Hispanicity Post-1898'. In: GOH, CONSTANCE and MCGUIRK, BERNARD, eds., Happiness and Post-Conflict Cultures Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. 157-77
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2007. 鈥楨l socialismo de Unamuno entre 1914 y 1924鈥� Cuadernos de la C谩tedra Miguel de Unamuno. 43, 89-98.
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2005. 'El papel de Unamuno en la emergencia del intelectual moderno en Espa帽a'. In: CHAGUACEDA TOLEDANO, A., ed., Miguel de Unamuno. Estudios sobre su obra. II Salamanca : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 255-76
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2005. 'Placas tect贸nicas: Miguel de Unamuno y la renovaci贸n de la sensibilidad religiosa en Espa帽a' In: Hispanistica XX, volume 21 (2003). 141-50
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2004. Hispanidad: el desarrollo de una pol茅mica noci贸n en la obra de Unamuno Cuadernos de la C谩tedra Miguel de Unamuno. 39, 61-80
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2003. Oy茅ndose casualmente a s铆颅 mismo: de Hamlet a Augusto P茅rez. In: CHAGUACEDA TOLEDANO, A., ed., Miguel de Unamuno: estudios sobre su obra. I Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 95-112
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2003. 'La virtualidad fenomenol贸gica y la primera poes铆a de Juan Ram贸n Jim茅nez' In: Hispanistica XX, volume 19 (2001). 305-15
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2003. 'Unamuno, Spanishness and the Ideal Patria: An Intellectual's View' Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies. 8, 125-136
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2002. The self-adjusting sonnet: Pablo Neruda's 'Arte po茅tica' (30 pp.) At: The Kate Elder Lecture, Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. ISBN 0904188779
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2002. 'Obras incompletas: la historia textual p贸stuma de la obra de Unamuno y sus efectos en la cr铆tica'. In: , ed., Los textos del 98 Centro para la Edici贸n de los Cl谩sicos Espa帽oles, Spain,. 143-66
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2001. 'El exilio como una experiencia temporal: Miguel de Unamuno y <i>C贸mo se hace una novela</i>'. In: , ed., Le XX猫me si猫cle, parcours et rep猫res : culture hispanique Dijon : Centre d'脡tudes et de Recherches Hispaniques du XX猫me si猫cle, Universit茅 de Bourgogne.
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2001. Review of Lucas Mallada, La futura revoluci贸n espa帽ola y otros escritos regeneracionistas, intr. by Francisco J. Ayala-Carcedo and Steven L. Driever Modern Language Review. VOL 96(PART 2), 553-554
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2001. Review of Miguel de Unamuno's Political Writings 1918-1924, Vol. 3, ed. G.D. Robertson Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). lxxviii, 258-59
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2001. 'El nacimiento de un prejuicio: 1898, Am茅rica Latina y la galofobia de Unamuno' In: Tu mano es mi destino: Actas del Congreso Internacional Miguel de Unamuno. 417-23
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2001. 'The Reception of <em>Ariel</em> in Spain: Rod贸, Unamuno and the Emergence of the Modern Intellectual'. In: SAN ROM脕N, G., ed., This America We Dream Of: Rod贸 and Ariel One Hundred Years On London : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 68-91
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2000. 'Unamuno, 1898 y la crisis de la Restauraci贸n'. In: , ed., 1898: Entre la crisi d'identitat i la modernitzaci贸: Actes del Congr茅s Internacional celebrat a Barcelona, 20-24 d'abril de 1998 I. Barcelona : Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de la Presidencia. Comissi贸 1898. 239-48
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 2000. 'Unamuno and the Restoration Political Project: A Reevaluation'. In: HARRISON, J. and HOYLE, A., eds., Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-colonialism Manchester : Manchester University Press. 68-80
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 1999. 'In Search of a New Spanish Realism: Bardem's "Calle Mayor" (1956)'. In: EVANS, P.W., ed., Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition Oxford : Oxford University Press. 19-37
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 1998. Review of Carmen Arocena, V铆ctor Erice Tessera. 4, 189-190
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 1998. 'The Function and Mission of Theatre: Ortega's Idea del teatro' Contemporary Theatre Review. 7(3), 57-66
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., 1998. Review of Miguel de Unamuno's Political Writings 1918-1924. Volume 1: La anarquia reinante (1918-1920) and Volume 2: El absolutismo en acecho (1921-1922), ed. G.D. Robertson Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). VOL 75(NUMBER 4), 489
  • ROBERTS, S. G. H., 1997. Review of Luisa Marina Perdig贸, The Origins of Vicente Huidobro's `Creacionismo' (1911-1916) and its Evolution (1917-1947) Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). VOL 74(NUMBER 1), 131
  • ROBERTS, S.G.H., ed., 1996. Miguel de Unamuno: Political Speeches and Journalism (1923-1929) University of Exeter Press, Exeter, England.
  • 1925. Cuadernos de la C谩tedra Miguel de Unamuno. 52, 1

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